A judge on Friday temporarily rejected California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s request to place Los Angeles County’s troubled juvenile facilities under the control of a receiver, but warned he will revisit that decision in the near future.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Hernandez ruled that the proposed receivership would be too drastic of an action at this point in the ongoing civil case. The attorney general’s office has not exhausted “less extreme” options available, nor has it properly articulated “how the appointment of a receiver would be any different than the current leadership structure” within the county Probation Department, he wrote in a tentative ruling later adopted by the court.

Los Angeles County’s attorney, Robert Dugdale, had previously argued that any

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